captainsolo said:

Jaws was saved in the production firstly with all of the script re-writes. Then whether consciously or not, Spielberg played to his strengths which is why if you think about it, the film is like a combination of the best elements from Sugarland Express and Duel. Then the editing could only improve and tighten everything up. Though I still think the added head bit was unnecessary.

I could never agree that Spielberg's modern output is better. To me they're just so damn...boring. If you enjoy or prefer them that's fine, but I could hardly stand some of them and became beyond exasperated with things like The Terminal. I think my primary problem with these films is that I never saw much of a point to making any of them. They seemed to exist only on a single story level and little more, so that virtually anybody could have made them. His boundless creativity for storytelling hasn't been present for me in a looong time.

I guess I stick with EOTS as the breaking point because Last Crusade is undone by its tiredness. (Though I loathed The Color Purple and E.T.) I've realized that I only like five of his anyway. (Duel, Sugarland, Jaws, Raiders, Temple)

Temple of Doom has its problems, but trying to remake Raiders is not one of them. Though it does feel like cobbled together bits left over because it really was if you read the original script. The Mine Cart chase came from there. Though they did change the locale, and instead of Just Indy and Marion they had to through in a little kid for comic relief.

Cannot believe i am comparing Last crusade to Crystal Skull but they try to be remakes of Raiders instead of stand alone serial adventures and fail miserably in that regard. Much like Return of the Jedi has been blasted for being a badly disguised Remake of Star Wars.

Though unless he was just being a marketing guy the fact that he thought Bayformers was good shows how little taste he has these days. And Tintin was like a little kids Crystal Skull horrible cgi cartoon fest.